Coherent free-space optical communications: opportunities and challenges

FP Guiomar, MA Fernandes, JL Nascimento… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
The ever-increasing data rate demand for wireless systems is pushing the physical limits of
standalone radio-frequency communications, thus fostering the blooming of novel high …

Devices and fibers for ultrawideband optical communications

J Renaudier, A Napoli, M Ionescu, C Calo… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) has historically enabled the increase in the
capacity of optical systems by progressively populating the existing optical bandwidth of …

Ultrawideband systems and networks: Beyond C+ L-band

T Hoshida, V Curri, L Galdino, DT Neilson… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the evolution of optical networks, spectral efficiency (SE) enhancement has been the most
cost-efficient and thus the main driver for capacity increase for decades. As a result, the …

Enabling optical network technologies for 5G and beyond

X Liu - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2022 - opg.optica.org
We review a series of innovative optical network technologies for 5G and beyond mobile
networks, enabling high-throughput mobile any-haul (x-haul) via wavelength-division …

Deep neural network-based digital pre-distortion for high baudrate optical coherent transmission

V Bajaj, F Buchali, M Chagnon, S Wahls… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
High-symbol-rate coherentoptical transceivers suffer more from the critical responses of
transceiver components at high frequency, especially when applying a higher order …

Blind equalization and channel estimation in coherent optical communications using variational autoencoders

V Lauinger, F Buchali… - IEEE Journal on Selected …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We investigate the potential of adaptive blind equalizers based on variational inference for
carrier recovery in optical communications. These equalizers are based on a low-complexity …

Free-space terabit optical interconnects

MA Fernandes, PP Monteiro… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
The continuous growth of Internet data traffic is progressively increasing the pressure over
wireless access technologies. To overcome the imminent bandwidth bottleneck, free-space …

On the benefits of point-to-multipoint coherent optics for multilayer capacity planning in ring networks with varying traffic profiles

P Pavon-Marino, N Skorin-Kapov… - Journal of Optical …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Point-to-multipoint (P2MP) coherent optics using digital subcarrier multiplexing have
recently been proposed as a promising new technology to reduce the cost and complexity of …

Kurtosis-limited sphere shaping for nonlinear interference noise reduction in optical channels

YC Gültekin, A Alvarado, O Vassilieva, I Kim… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Nonlinear interference (NLI) generated during the propagation of an optical waveform
through the fiber depends on the fourth order standardized moment of the channel input …

Intelligent burst receiving control in 100G coherent PON with 4× 25G TFDM upstream transmission

M Xu, Z Jia, H Zhang, LA Campos… - Optical Fiber …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
We proposed novel burst-receiving technologies, including power rebalancing and sub-
channel recognition, in a 100G coherent PON with 4× 25G-TFDM sub-channels. Superior …